FIN 580

Spring 2020 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Jan 21-May 6

Special Topics in Finance

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Credit: 0 TO 4 hours.

Lectures and discussions relating to new areas of interest. See class schedule for topics and prerequisites.

0 to 4 graduate hours. No professional credit. Approved for Letter and S/U grading. May be repeated to a maximum of 18 hours in a semester; may be repeated to a maximum of 32 hours in subsequent semesters. Credit is not given for FIN 528 and FIN 580 (66393), Section ADF. Prerequisite: Varies by section.

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FIN 580 class schedule data for spring 2020
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
69358	Lecture-Discussion	ETA	6:00PM -7:20PM	MW	100 Gregory Hall	Smith, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/20-05/06/20 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Entrepreneurship Thru Acquistn Section Info: Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition (ETA) is the exciting career path where business professionals buy and grow existing small businesses. For individuals with business skills and a desire to make a meaningful impact, this path is significantly less risky than starting new businesses around unproven product or service ideas. The course will introduce ETA and cover how to search for, value, finance, and grow small business acquisitions. Invited speakers include entrepreneurs and acquisition professionals. No prior background in finance is required. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
60175	Lecture-Discussion	G1	3:30PM -4:50PM	MW	1029C Business Instructional Fac	Gao, X	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/20-05/06/20 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Financial Data Mgt. & Analysis Section Info: Financial Data Management and Analysis. Proper data handling and management is essential to the success of data analysis. The primary goal of this course is to learn principles and practices of data management with an emphasis on working with financial databases. Students will gain practical skills in data storage, data preparation, and data extractions that eventually lead to data analysis. Data management procedures including SQL queries, and data analysis techniques using large-scale statistical software are presented. Restriction(s): Restricted to MS:Finance -UIUC, MS: Finance Cost Rec -UIUC, MS: Finance - UIUC, or MS: Finance Cost Rec - UIUC.
60176	Lecture-Discussion	G2	2:00PM -3:20PM	MW	1029C Business Instructional Fac	Gao, X	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/20-05/06/20 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Financial Data Mgt. & Analysis Section Info: Environmental regulation has become ubiquitous; Modern business leaders need to be aware of how it affects their businesses and how to operate within its constraints. The focus of this course is the design and critique of domestic environmental policies such as liability law, taxation, command-and-control regulations, and permit markets. We compare their effectiveness and distributional impacts, including effects on regulated firms, and discuss the differential effects these policies can have on technological progress. Restriction(s): Restricted to MS: Finance - UIUC, MS:Finance -UIUC, MS: Finance Cost Rec -UIUC, or MS: Finance Cost Rec - UIUC.
62533	Lecture-Discussion	GCF	12:30PM -1:50PM	TR	241 Wohlers Hall	Sholem, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/20-05/06/20 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Growth Corp Capital Funding Section Info: Registration restricted to MSF and MBA. Restriction(s): Restricted to MS:Finance -UIUC, MS: Finance Cost Rec -UIUC, MS: Finance - UIUC, MS: Finance Cost Rec - UIUC, or MBA:Bus Administration -UIUC.
66148	Practice	INT	ARRANGED	n.a.	Location Pending	Widdicks, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/20-05/06/20 Special Approval: Departmental Approval Required Section Title: Internship
59305	Lecture-Discussion	JOR	9:00AM -10:30AM	F	1029C Business Instructional Fac	Rodriguez Orjuela, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/20-05/06/20 Credit: 2 hours Section Title: Adv. Data Sci & Python for Fin Section Info: Advanced to Data Science & Python. This advanced course in Python and data science will cover concepts such as 1. Advanced data cleaning and preparation, regular expressions, text and sentiment extraction. 2.Pandas working with large datasets and best practices (adv cleaning, merge, shape, etc). 3.Fundamentals of Web scrapping and extracting data from APIs. 4.Working with DateTime types and time series data. Restriction(s): Restricted to MS:Finance -UIUC, MS: Finance Cost Rec -UIUC, MS: Finance - UIUC, or MS: Finance Cost Rec - UIUC.
47517	Conference	PHD	11:30AM -12:50PM	F	245 Wohlers Hall	Pennacchi, G	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/20-05/06/20 Section Title: Finance Doctoral Seminar Section Info: Seminar for Finance Doctoral Students. This CRN to be used for students not presenting a paper during the semester. Other students must receive consent of instructor to register. Restriction(s): Restricted to PHD:Finance -UIUC or PHD: Finance - UIUC.
69623	Lecture-Discussion	QI2	2:00PM -4:50PM	F	240 Wohlers Hall	Zhang, Q	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/20-05/06/20 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Quantamental Investment Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign. Restricted to NDEG:Finance - UIUC, MS: Financial Engineering, or MS: Finance Cost Rec - UIUC.
46904	Conference	SEM	11:30AM -12:50PM	F	245 Wohlers Hall	Pennacchi, G	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/20-05/06/20 Section Title: Finance Doctoral Seminar Section Info: Seminar for Finance Doctoral Students. This CRN to be used for students who will be presenting a paper during the semester. Other students must receive consent of instructor to register. Restriction(s): Restricted to PHD:Finance -UIUC or PHD: Finance - UIUC.